The Sun. — London, England, 1810-10-16 00:00:00

LOADUA, TUESDAY, OCTOB4R 16, 1810. In Our . Paper of SaMrday we informed our Readers that very little hope could be entertained of the successful termination of the negociation tor the exchange of prisoners of wit . , and we suited our, conviaion that it would sppear 'hat this tailure was wholly attributable to the ujust and airogant pre tensions of the French Government. ...Thesub , equent enquiriesAvhicli we have felt it our duty to make, have fully corroborated thtseopi- IllollS, but we have reason to think that our former statement of the precise point on. which the nego-. ciation has failed, is in some degree erroneous. Ti ,e proposition of the French was much more Unreason able than we had supposed; it was not, as we stated, t) exchange the British and French en masse, and afterwards to release the.Spaniirds in the hands of Fiance, but it vas, that for evcry :1000.French pri soners released by this coutitrk, should get in re. turn, not 3ouu British', but 1000 British and 2000 Allies, and this . too clogged with a condition that the Allies were to be sent to their respective coun- Ar.es by us, and at our expense. To such a proposition, so contrary to all the prin ciples and usaLs on which exchangos have been heretofore cOmiucted, and so re% °king to our national feeling oriLl honoc,r, by the deiay it would occasion to the rekaie ot our own country men, e rejoice that o:.r —oyernment ha, not acceded. We feel .with regard to our Mies; the utmost cor diality and esteem, and cvc highly approve the con dud .%f our Governt i vot to apply to the relitfof their prisoners the surplus of French that might re- Main in-our iii.ods (Ow the htreration of all toe British should have be-m effedtd out we must say that this country ne-..-er could have tbierated so mon stro.is and to mortifying an arrangement as that Trenehmen.n.ade prisuntrs by Britisti valour, and at the . ex pence of British blood and treasure , stioAd be set at htierty in exchange for foreigners, while our owl) soldiers and sailors still filleted in capti vity. The'rh termination of the French Government to .release tare British my in the proporti9n of one . for every three Frenchmen, having been notified to Mr. NI A E N ZiE: j Ile . bad, we understaud, demanded his passporkli, and the negociation may be said to have termioared. We deeply la(ment it for the sake of the individual sufferers ; but if, after so many and so important concessions as we, understand to have b , E.en made to the French, they wereitill unsatisfied, and at last required, as a sine quil non e . a stipulation so menifestly injurious to the interests, and so de rvgatory to the honour of Qteat Britain, we cannot .but congratulate the country on the termination of a negociation which seems to have been concluded, on the part of the. French, with scarcely any other ob. jett than that of insult or delusion. There was also, as we stated yesterday, a differ ence with regard tu the . numbers to be' reltased on account of the Hanoverian army of Wal ntoden, but we believe, the more important point of the release of all the British in the first- in stance, was that on which the success of the negocia. lion chiefly depended, though we cannot conceive that the absurd claims of the French in the Hanove r.ail question could have been admitted, even if the other, difficulty had not been raised. The amount of the French army under MAS , iiENA, when he commenced the attack on the 27ch ult. upon ',old WELLINGTON, fell very litt!e short of moot) men the vvhole of that force, however, etas not employed in the attack. The French force R etually engaged was about 2.5,000 men. MAssic,..lA himself dire4ted the operation, and the other french ,larshals were at the head of their divisions. The EnOisli advanced in the most eta& and determined style, and the French retrea‘ed kx it h equal regularity. There was no stonite when the enemy was driven from the ridge of the. Sierra, the bayonets glittered "'in 'he sun. Our troops manifested such enthusiasm and firmness, it9d pushed their advantages with such celerity and precision, that the whole presented one of t,be 4nost rnagnincet4 scen4g that imagination could pesssibleconeeive of a speikacle of this descr;p don. Wait tespea to the number of French that were wounded in the attack, some of our contempo raries are of opinion .that our calculation was extra vagant, when we estimated them at above eight thou sand men.—But when all the circumstances of the case are considered, we think it wilt appear that we have not over-rated the numbers. LOrd Wet.- lANGTON, in speaking of the loss of the French in wounded, S'.” s, in one place, that it wits enor mous, and• in another, immense. Now, it is rely improbable that he would have used such ex pressions if the loss of the French in wounded bole no greater proportion to the wounded than it did in his• own army; but if the proportions were the same in the two armies, then the French must have had more than 8000 wounded. It shOuld also be recolleaed that the allied army occupied an advan- . tueous position, and that the French, in ascending the heights to commence the attack, mu t have been exposed to the fire of our artillery, and that from the nature of the ground, they could not employ cannon. The number they had killed, of which there is no doubt, is a proof of the destivaive ef feEt of our fire. and we can see no reason for sup posing that their wounded bore a less proportiob to the killed than they did in our army. After the action, MASSENA sent-a flag of truce to our Camp, to ask permission to bury the dead; he also sent General ST. SIMON'S bitggoge: The request respeaing the.bnrying of the 'dead was re fused, but they were buried by the. British. The reinforcements, on their march to join Lord WEL LINGTON, amount to about 5000 men. Our Readers, .we are sure, participated. in the pleasure we felt on 'reading Lord WLLI.INGTON'S account of the conclua cf the Portnguese troops. That party in England which invariably objects to every thing that is proposed; and finds fault with evi.ry thing thiat has been executed, ridieitied the idea of forming an efficient Portuguese army. The result, however, has falsified their predietions, for the Portuguese soldiers have proved themselves . worthy of " contending. in the same ranks with British troops."—The pliant conduct of these men must produce the most beneficial consequences in Portugal—it will exalt the national character, and it Wirl revive the military spirit in that Kingdom, by teaching the inhabitants; that when properly dis- - ciplined and commanded, they are still capable of rivalling the military glory of their ancestors.,,, The followings a mote detailed account of a gallant achievement which took place some time ago near the GOO) of Eupttemia, than has hitherto been given to the Public A convoy of thirty-one vessels, laden with stores and providatis for MURAT'S army at Scylla, to gether with seven large gun-boats,. and five scampavias protecting them, have wholly fallen into the hands of our gallant seamen. It is an event of such importance at the present moment, rad the circumstauces attending the. capture are so highly honourable to the Officers and _ men employed in the service, that we are sure our countrymen will read the particulars with great pleasure, At day break, on the 24th July, his Majesty's ship Thames, standiugalopg the coast with the Pilot brig, near the Gulph of St. Euphewia, saw the Made off Aman thea, with the signal for a convoy in that direction. The enemy on seeing our ships, hauled the vesseh high on the beach, under the tawii, where they were flanked by two small batteriei, while the gun-boats and scampavias were drawn up in a hoe for their protection. Being nearly calm, it was f wo.before our ships closed. The Thames and the two brigs, in ael pa line, then ran along within grape-shot, and hat lug driven the enemy from the vessels, anchored; the boats. of ofir three vessels were. then dispatcht d under the command of Lieutenant COL LIER, of the , Thames. The Marines were landed under the command of Lieutenant MAC-ADAM, to cover the seamen while launching the vessels. The ships all the time were firing on the batteries, and wherever the musquetry was colleaed to ,oppose the party on shore, as the enemy had not only .thrown up an embankment* outside the vessels, to prevent our getting them off, but also one within them to afford shelter for the numerous troops col le&ed, who, when driven from these entrenchments, still ante yed us greatly from the walls of the town. Every difficulty,' however, was surmounted, 'and by six o'clock all the vessels were in our possession, but , we were obliged to destroy some of them, on ac count of their having been too much shitterod by' our destt i u4ive fire to floai. • ' The following is a list of the Officer.* employed, in the boats on the above gallant occasion Tharnes-4isat. Edward Collier, Orst I...iuteerlant; Lieut: Francis .Motesworth, second Lientenatit ; Lietvenant !filacAdam, Royal Marines; Messrs., Liddort, Wyvill, Veal, M9rtay, Hon. T!cfuFis cans.; uall, and Wilkinoon, Midshipmen ; Mr. Boatswain ; Mr. Beckett, Cat-in:titer. ihazle—Capt. Prescott ; Mr. Clyne, Master; 11 , 1 ors. Holmes and Golding, Midshipmen. Pilot—Lieutenants Annesley and Penruddock Thomas Haber, Boatswain; Mr. Lee, Master's Mate. A List of Wined Vessels and Transports, taken and de stroyed by his Majesty's hatnes, and Pilot, at Aittantl►ca, on thu 25th July IS to. un.boat, No. 20, ►8 pounder, iron, Coun , indant of flotilla, Seignior Carracci, Captain of frigate.. Ditto, No. 2j, t 8 pounder, ►roll. Ditto. No. 36, 18 pounder, iron. Di , to, No. 39, 36 pounder, brass. 13itto, No. 42, 36 pounder, brass. Ditto, No. 64, 18 pounder, brass. One Scampavia, 6 pounder, brass. Ditto, 6 pounder, bras. Armed pinnace, i swivel, &c. Transports taken. • Latten rigged, No. 124, cargoe, bread. Ditto, No. 482, ditto powder. Ditto, No. 497, Ditto, grape and case shot, bread, clothing, &c. Ditto, No. 498, ditto, shells. Ditto, No. coo, ditto, bread. Ditto, No. cot, ditto, bread and wine. • Ditto, No. p 3, ditto, bread. Ditto, No. st.i4, ditto, bread and wine. Ditto, No. 512, ditto; provisions bread and wine. Ditto, No. 513, ditto. bread. Ditto, No. 514, ditto, anchors, cables, oars, blocks, &c. Ditto, No sic, ditto, shot and wads. Ditto, No. 517, ditto, powder m u d shot. Ditto, No. 518, ditto, shells, flints, clothing, &c. Ditto, No. 52_, ditto, ballo.-ortridges (in barrels.) and. case.. shot. Ditto, No. 521, ditto, powder, shells, cannister-shot, and musquet-Galls in casks. •• , , Sl"op,No 522, ditio, Lora and bread. Latten ri,oved, No. 523, ditto, powder and shells. - Ditto, No. 524, ditto, bread : And t‘ we (one case of tubes.) Ditto, No 525, ditto, ponder aid fin-ts, wine and uread. Ditto. N 527, ditto, case snot, Lases of mLoquets and bales ot cloth. Ditto, No; 5.?8, ditto bread and clothing. Ditto. No. 53e, ditto,.bread. • " • Ditto, no number, ditto, bread and wine. Ditto, ditto, ditto, round and cannister-shot, matches, &c, Ditto, ditto, ditto, oil. Total taken; 6 Gun-boats, 2 Scampavias, t armed Pinnace, 27 Transports: Aimed Vessels destroyed. • Gun-boat, No. ' , t4 puorrder, iron, sunk. Scasnpavia, not known, 6 pounder, iron, ditto. Ditto, ditto, 6 pounder, burnt. • Coasters, Transports, destroyed. Settee (too tons) not known, cargo, bread and accoutre ments, burnt. Ditto, small, ditto, ditto, bread, ditto. Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, bread. &c. sunk. Total taken •and destroyed, 7 Gun-boats, 7 Scampavias, 28 Transports and coasting Vessels. • Return of killed and wounded. 1 harries, t Marine killed, 2 Seamen and,r marine wounded. Weazle, t Seaman wounded, daiverously. Pilot, I Seaman and corporal of Marines wounded. Her Royal Highness the Princess AMELIA is said to have had one of the best nights on Sunday night for !en night past, and she was considered a little better yesterday morning ; this was confirmed by.. the Prince of WALES arriving in London at one o'clock -; his Royal Highness is not quite recovered from the gout. The Dy3ke of YORK arrived alto in town about half past three ; soon after the Earl of Ltvoroot.. waited upon his Royal . Highness at York-house, to inform him of the particulars of tl , e disdatthes received from Lord. WELLLNOTON, after which' his aoyal Highness walked across the Park With the Noble Earl to his office. Their Royal Highnesses:were expected to 'return to Windsor this morning. The Dukes of Sussisx and QAMBUIDCIE took the diversion of thooting in the neighbourhood of Wind- We are sorry to say the reports of the state of the Princess AMELIA, the latter part of the day, were not so flattering. We have received Hamburgh rapers to the 40 instant, from one,of which we, have extra6ted the following Important article:— " VIENNA, SEPT. 22.- 7 -The town of Czistowbas surrendered by capitulation to the . ROs;ians, The Turkish troops obtained permission to retire from the town upon laying down their arms, and giving them up, with all their baggage and artillery, to the Russians. " The surrender of this town may be considered as tone of the results of the vitiory 'ebtaineri on the Ith. It has put the Russians in possession of the whole Turkish flotilla, with a great supply of pro riiions and ammunition. " Czistow i, situated close to the Danube, be tween Nicopoli aid Rut schtschock.7 I , ttters from Heligoland state, that there has lately been a great tire'at Hatnburgh. • It commenced -in the Admiralty-street, and has been attended by very melancholy consequences. No less than 40 persons are said to have perished by the flatne4. A great nutubor of houses have been destroyed, with pro perty to a large amount.. Sir ff. POPHAM has sailed from Plymouth in the Venerable, to direct the naval pact of . the diversions which are intended to be.made on the coasts of Bis cay and Astoria. The recentresults.of the expedt tions under General Poll LIER and captain MENDS, have suggested the expediency. of. more important enterprises in that quarter; and understand that vessels are fitting out at Pymouth, to follow with those supplies of arms, ammunition, and clothing, which are alone neCes'sary to the formation of an army, particularly in Astoria. CoimattA.-;--Coimbra is a very 'ancient and consi derable city._ It is, accoidiog to PLiNr, the Conan brisca of ANTONIUS, built by the Romans 300 years. before CHRIST. It has long.been celebrated for the Uni%ersity founded therein 12g0 by King . DiNis I. The situation;Of this place is delightful; it forms a. - kind olamphitheatre, at - whose foot-runs-the Mon dego, which, six leagues lower, - diseharges itself into the sea. The Small plains watered by this river are very-rich, and in the highest cultivation ; they abound in' corn, wine, and particularly in fruits, which are.esteernedthe - ktest in P,ortngal. The Cur-. regideitshin contains about 150,000 souls, and the city Of Coimbra 12,000. • ..AttclitaT.-..-This manly and interesting amuse-, mom,' • which hag of late declined' in the southern parts of the island, seems still.to retain its footing is .thp Noah. .The Richmond archers have had, coon-Geld-days ! lately.: At their.laat ineet,log, the offketi ware appaintc , gt 7 S' Or: CI, tWo O'CLaG We have just received the fullo4iin ; ; from Windsor : • " Her Royal Highness the Princess AtIELt 4 /18 a disturbed night, from coughing, b , a is in oth er re. Teas much the same as yesterd.iy," • o' Mr. PALMER, the Mayor of Bath who, is i nd J c tigable in his cllor s to promoie ohlects of .P`, l l- 4 1 -• 'Utility, has recendy contributed green; to the r - 4 , 0 . sure acrd adviintage of that city, by a plan Wh lci ' r t it devised for cleansing the celebrltcd s prings; re which it is so much itu'ebted for its con s "9 ei r l r y and popul irity. Previously to the alit:rept to crier; this pi,n3 in , o•execution, Mr. PALMER, vie u t r . stand, coßSulted every Person likely to be con r "..„ sa;:t with the subje6l, and had so lunch e,;,c010 went from scientific and intelligent rieo, th 3t o f vent wed upon the experiment.. A vast num ber persons, boA ever, were re•olutek adverse . 1 0 t , measure, and predicted the most ruinous cc 057., :quences. For some time the proccss vi• as 5° d re couraging, that those who had ania L ned h'SI) t° i /1.0 undertaking began. to despair, and advised h i tt desist Convinced, however, of the be:tetii-n would result from the success of the o peration , 31 4 determined to proceed with the utmost cout lo ' persevered, in spite of • the predictions of " .t5 Meaning ignorance and prejudice, and his eff th . „,.. have folly accomph,hed ttte object in vie w ' it .The waters, there•ore, instead of pa -sing • tbr ° , lj b a : many st'ata of ear hs, are now derived pure I rt ' e . ,} ;their source, and such measures have been adopl as Will effectually secure them from luture a dil l; teration, or any diminution the r virttiest may easily be conceived that all the tears a lit' b judices which attended the undertaking have , t , converted into additional esteem for Mr. l'AL ) " ty " admiration of the firmness, good sense, aid p ct • he spirit which.mark his chi-trader. 00 the conflagration at Ofer, in linngar A 0 y, v a o quintals of silver, 4000 fa' hots Wood, and 6 0, " - barrels of flour mere dew, yed. The only soft treatment which BuoN,ApAslr i f i j shewn to his subjects and allies, is vt be tumid recent decree permitting the exportaiion o f tilti . t o ,, In.ihe list of mariiages of last week is bat °t l i si JAMES Bunny, butcher, of Fleet • inc k , va'c te( MARY RAWBoNE. It was s!ringe taste in a to fancy a Rawl.one for his•rib! I for : Sixty pounds was last week paid at Plvmou a substitute for the Militia. One iT):.in went 0 0 c(i oc i dition of receiving t is. per day during the war another sold himself for 7s. 3d. per lb. ro Pow--basfrtt town on -ft .theatrical .excnrcir'n Bath and Bristol, in which ciiie4 be is to .1V r i°l- 4 , eight . . nights:. He aftervards goes to the P' c o l mouth Theatre for ten nights, upon the most lit' e terms. ba The musical circles of Bath, it seems, sr° 0 .enlivened through the whole aeaton by the tf-cr tl, Of CATALAN,. No alteration in the price of Bread Ibis ;.veelc. die There was only one defaulter on Saturday ; Stock Exchange, on settling the Ociober accotr-i:l6 but-his deficiency was said lo to c orisider'! oo . amount. Motley was plenti!ul, and no contino iltl oc it The house 6f Messfs. tack all Ibe .4 ` , They had bought for thatday. • U W Umtata BONAPARTE is, C understand, he to - iers hawed to continue his voyage to America, and " r ' i lio have been sent . from the Admiralty to afibrd 0 31 necessary convoy thitt,er. The light-hothes" at Ipswich are shortly 1 0 led down and rebuilt ; and the one lighted by coal is tr^ be lighted by lamps with reflectors: A small colony has sailed from Boston to t' i lci tands of Treslon de Cunha, in . future to be c%io the Islands of Refreshment, with a P a r , r o 3 supplies for vessels bound to the Cape of atc Hope and the East Indies. The soil and C l `7 l . o r are similar to Madeira and the Azores, and the bours are represented as being better. tiotl FORT Fran iliLt.—The following is a desc l Toy , of the retreating place which Christophe, the of tian Chief, has prepared for himself, in case 0) Fer decisive and irreparable -mistuitune.---, FOit A ot, vier is an extensive fortification, with upw° 1. 7 5 ,10; one hundred and seventy pieces of cannon,. w h oa ferent calibre. The wall i - built with the ~- e 3 ; lime-stone of the country; and encirles the be of Mount Melo, the highest in the vicinity oi d e -Francois. This fortress, which exhibits an ous piece of military architecture, was or i gqer planned, and the foundation laid, by Mon'', Os, tier, an officer of the French engineers, .aho tl ' year 1799 ; since which time it has been coo llll o ol under the direCtion of Christophe. The 019 , 1 0 1 -taro is very difficult to ascend, from the gre a h i e of the. acclivity, in the distance of a mile t he even rocky ground, from the snmmit. ~Vtibit eta inclosure is a subterraneous space, of sufficie n ' it otl tent to contain six thousand men ; and a reP us ' fo ( i of provisions for: the :support of that nutu ber o 'cle eighteen months._ This circumstance is a tt ' , by a precaution which evinces the ug,scilY c ' i e gO; Haytian .tionafch - .; that of ha% ing this supPlY i A (.1 lady distributed, to prevent. its ,- cz y; aud r e p or' it with a fresh stock. A prit6pice, terrible be ; description,presents itself at bizse.of one (3 ,,,bi0', angles of the great surroundlog wail ; dovgll all those who unfortnnately displease , the Tyrant are hurled: The - knowledge of th 5 "; 1 1, a dread into the minds of his subjects, and them more assiduous in the exet:ution of bi 6, mands. The summit of the mountain hai 5/1111 17r, appearance from Cape Frant.)is, much resei c ji,' a crow's nest, and is so termed by the i t, s f y Englishmen that is, among themselves ti"" ;c 'iii i i such a precaution is necessary, from the. 09 9,0; temper of :-tha,President, who, would, i,f i tr f e 'e i ° ) him, conclude that they [meant to ob' 0 , gts affitatty between him and the crow—her l' e- t icv; his tetreat. The consequence of any satc 3 ;; servations of such a uitture, would be g his mount. Fort Ferrier is - distant , about i f ' - t miles from the Cape; it ° rises from a vo le slaw name, ac id mty be ieen fit teagufi tn,,t rrnmeat, the patriot horse-bore dowtt upon th it 4',..l•: , fltlelit'S With SO much gallantry,'that they ,e,cued ;he greattr part of the which were on the{ Vint of sutrt•ndering. The lo;s of - the Spaniard, is S'ateul to be only 50 killed and feo woondi-d ; and ti:at of the enemy, 300 infantry in , d Rio con is , ,irrs, which we imagine. to be a ~‘ . ARK IV En--I Waterfutd. I)u e--i Cadiz, r Lisbon, 2 IVateitoed. P 11..,E 01• hT()CKS THIS DAY AP T WiLV O'CLOCK. 6o Ommuni 41. . - 6 Consols . - T ii .11. • 6 u .L.,. SOLEM QUIS DICERS ?ALSUM AUDLAT ?